Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1887-07-03
SOME BIG SALARIES.
New York Men Who Get q Good Deal of
Money for Their Work, and Who Earn
1t, Too.

Foster Coates Ner York Letter.
The editor of one of the great dailies
took a novice into his office one day.
You may 90 on the reportorial STAFF
he said to him. at has been my expert
ence that money, women and choice foods
make capital newspaper stories. When
ever you can get a story in which money
plays an important part you have an arti-
Gle that will be read with interest"
So what follows is all about money, and
the we'll known New Workers whose MIN
b~letingers chase the elusive dollar, or rather
thousands of them, each year.
There are a score of men in New York
who are paid as much for their services
each year as the President of the United
States. Forty thousand dollars a year is
a very tidy salary. There are hundreds of
men who get $25, 900 a year salary, and
the number who get from $4,000 to S20,-
900 are legion.
Very ordinary men get from 5000 to
$4,000 year, or as much as a Cabinet
officer. DIR. Norvin Green, President of
the Western Union Telegraph Company,
is paid $50, 900. SO is Chauncey NJ. De-
pew, President Of the New York Central
railroad. Richard NJ. McCurdy, President
of the Mutual Life Insurance Company,
gets a like amount. John Hoey, President
of the Adams Express Company, fares
equally as we'll. President Henry B.
Hyde, of the Equitable Life Insurance
Company, is also in the list. George w.
Williams, President of the Chemical Ma
tional Bank, the richest banking institu-
ton in America, with nearly s., OOO, 900 Of
surplus, $40, 000, 600 average deposits, is
paid a salary of $25, 600 yearly. President
Potts, of the Park Bank, and President
Tappin, of the Gallatin. National Bank, re-
ceive a like sum each twelve months.
The best paid minister in New York is
DR.. John Hall, a brainy man from the
north of Ireland, who breaches to $780,
600, 900 every Sunday. His is the small
est church in town. He owes his rise in
life to Robert Bonner, of the Ledger, who
found him preaching to a small cougrega-
ton in Dublin and induced him to come to
year and makes 5000 by his newspaper
and magazine articles. He is given "a lux
uriously furnished house as well. DR..
Morgan Dix, the chief pastor of Trinity
Church corporation, the wealthiest
in America, receives $4,000 year
ly. DIR. William M. Taylor, of
the Broadway Tabernacle gets the same
amount. He does literary work and lee
turing that brings his income up to $40, 900.
DR.. Charles Hall of the Fifth Avenue Pres
byterian church is paid SIS, 900. He is
very eloquent and his church is crowded
at all services. DR.. Parkhurst of Madison
Square Church gets $4,000. He has q
large and distinguished congregation.
Cyrus w. Field Is one of the pillars of the
church. DR.. Paxton, who breaches to Jay
Gould and others less wealthy, is paid
SIS, 600. Rev. Robert Collier, the black
smith preacher, is paid $4,000.
OF the editors Mr.. Stone, of the Journal
Of Commerce, is paid $40, 900. He is presi-
dent of the Associated Press, immensely
wealthy, lives in Brooklyn, and has a ma
mia for choice flowers and plants; his col
lection is worth $25O,00O. Charles A.
Dana, editor Of the SWn, is paid SIS, 900
salary, but he is also a large stakeholder in
the paper, and his income from this source
Squite 500, 600. Before the paper began
to decline the sum was nearly 5000, 600.
Whitelaw Reid, chief owner of the Tribune,
pas himself nearly $4,000 yearly. He
has been very fortunate in speculation,
and is said to be worth over 81, 900, 600.
His wife, 4 daughter of o. d.. Mills,
has a fortune of half that sum in her
own name. DR.. George III. Hepworth, who
was at one time a gseat pulpit orator, now
chief of the Herald staff, is paid $l2, 900
yearly by James Gordon Bennett. Julius
Chambers, the managing editor of the
same paper, receives $l0 1000. Charles K.
Miller, the real editor of the New York
Times, gets so, 600 a year. He has several
assistants in editorial writing who get
from 81, 600 to $1,000. j. c. Ried, the man
aging editor of the paper, gets $1,000, and
Harold Frederic, the London correspond
ent, So, 600. Colonel John a Cock
Grill, managing editor of the World, gets
So, 900 yearly. He also gets Il small share
of the profits of the paper, making in all
$40, 600 yearly. George W. Turner, the
publisher of the same paper, makes $40, 600
yearly. George William Curtis IL paid
SO, 900 yearly for editing Ha,per's Weekly.
He does not do much work, and for days
at n time he does not 80 near the office.
He lives in delightful ease in a great big
rnomy house on Staten Island. Novelist
Howells is paid $4,000 for his work on
Harpcr's Mdgdzine, and Charles Dudley
Warner Just half the sum for his humor-
Gus work on the same monthly. Richard
Watson Glider gets Sl2, 900 for editing the
Ceatury Magazine.
OF the physicians, DIR. Fordycc Barker
probably makes the largest income. His
reputation as a consulting physician stands
very high. He is said to make from $50,-
600 to $50, GOO each year. DR.. A. l..
Loomis, a specialist on throat and lung
troubles, makes about $5U, 1000. DIR. J. T..
Netcalf makes about the same amount.
DIR. l. A. Sayre, the great surgeon who
mended John L. Sulliyan's broken arm,
makes $40, 600. DR.. A. Jacob, who de-
votes himself entirely to the diseases Of
children, makes $50, 900. DR.. G. K. Agnew,
who makes the eye a speciality, clears S25,-
600 yearly. DR.. George T. Shrsdy, who at
tended General Grant so faithfully, has an
income of $25, 600. DR.. Herman Knapp,
an eye specialist, receives about S25, 900.
The legal profession is very
tive. Col. Bob ingersoll and Roscoe COnk-
ling are both said TO be making over $780,
OO0 a year. Joseph A. Choate makes con.
siderably over that. 30 does Senator
Evarts. There are hundreds of lawyers
who make from 81, 900 to 500, 600 yearly.
And the number who make from $l0,OO o
to $50, 900 would fill a column.
Jockey Mclaughlin, who rides for the
Dryers, il paid $4,000. He has the
privilege OF outside amounts, which means
S., 900 more. He gets in addition from
s., 900 to $40, 900 more in gifts from own
ers of horses he has ridden successfully.
Jockey Isaac Murphy gets $4,000 and
outside amounts. His income is fully
, 5000 a year.
Five thousand dollars is not regarded as
a very big salary. Quite a number of the
editors and at least a dozen reporters on
the New York dailies make that amount,
not to speak of the clergymen, bank
officials and men in commercial houses who
get as much.
But talking about money.
John ?. Ritter, the assistant manager of
the clearing house here, has probably seen
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